The following words and terms, when used in this chapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
- (1) Board--The governing board of the Department of Information Resources.
- (2) Department--The Department of Information Resources.
- (3) Information resources--The procedures, equipment, and software that are employed, designed, built, operated, and maintained to collect, record, process, store, retrieve, display, and transmit information, and associated personnel including consultants and contractors.
- (4) Information resources technologies--Data processing and telecommunications hardware, software, services, supplies, personnel, facility resources, maintenance, and training.
- (5) Joint information resources managers--A person that is designated by more than one state agency or institution of higher education and approved by the department to simultaneously serve as the information resources manager for each of the designating agencies or institutions of higher education.
Source Note:The provisions of this §211.1 adopted to be effective November 29, 2004, 29 TexReg 10911; amended to be effective January 5, 2006, 30 TexReg 8852.